What is a prompt snippet?

A snippet is a reusable piece of prompt text, such as Golden Hour or Slow Dolly-In. You insert it while you write, and its words become part of your prompt exactly as shown.

What is the difference between a snippet and a preset?

A preset sets up a whole node, such as its model, resolution and aspect ratio. A snippet changes only the text you are writing, inside the prompt or the negative prompt.

Does someone who imports my workflow need my snippets?

No. A snippet is stored as plain text in the prompt, so the words travel with the workflow. The person who imports it sees the same prompt.

Can I edit the built-in snippets?

No. Built-in snippets cannot be edited. Create your own snippet with New snippet, starting from the built-in text if you like.

Which characters can a snippet not contain?

A snippet cannot contain curly braces, the @ sign or line breaks, because the prompt editor uses them for variables and mentions.

Prompt snippets — insert reusable prompt fragments with the / menu in Nodaro

Insert tested prompt fragments such as Identity Lock or Golden Hour with the / menu, swap them in one click, and save your own snippets for every workflow.

A prompt snippet is a reusable piece of prompt text, such as "Identity Lock", "Golden Hour" or "Slow Dolly-In", that you insert while you write. Type / in a prompt field, or click the snippets button beside it, and choose a snippet. Its words go into your prompt at that place. Nodaro ships built-in snippets for image and video prompts, and you can save your own.

Snippets and presets

	Snippet	Preset
What it changes	Only the text of one field	The whole node: model, resolution, aspect ratio and more
Where it goes	Inside the prompt or the negative prompt you are writing	Into all of the node's settings at once
Use it to	Enrich the wording of a prompt	Set up a node

Use a preset to set up a node, and a snippet to improve the words.

What you see is what runs

A snippet is plain text. Once you insert it, its words are part of the prompt, and that exact text is sent to the model. Nothing is looked up later. So:

The final-prompt view, published apps, the API and workflow export all see the same plain text.
A shared or exported workflow carries the words as they are. The person who imports it does not need your snippets.

Insert a snippet with /

Type / in a prompt field

Type / at the start of a line or after a space. The snippet menu opens where you are typing. It never opens in the middle of a word, so an address such as https:// does not open it.

Filter the list

Keep typing to filter. The menu searches each snippet's name, description and category, and names that start with your text come first. Your own snippets appear at the top, then the built-in snippets grouped by category. Each row shows the name and a preview of the text. The menu shows up to 50 results.

Insert it

Use ↑ and ↓ to move, and Enter or Tab to insert the highlighted snippet. Esc closes the menu, and the menu also closes when nothing matches.

Nodaro adds a separator before the snippet so the prompt reads cleanly:

Where your cursor is	What is added before the snippet
At the start of a line, or after a space	Nothing
After `.` `,` `;` `:` `!` or `?`	One space
Right after a word	A comma and a space

The / menu works next to the other prompt shortcuts: @ for mentions and { for variables.

The snippets button

Each prompt field has a small </> button in its label row, beside the AI prompt helper button. It opens the same searchable menu. A snippet you choose from the button is added to the end of the field; use / to insert at another place.

The bottom of the menu has two actions:

New snippet opens the snippet manager with a new snippet ready. If you selected text in the field first, that text becomes the new snippet's text.
Manage opens the snippet manager, where you edit or delete your snippets.

Snippet pills

In a prompt field, an inserted snippet shows as a small amber pill with its name, instead of the full text. Hover over the pill to read its full text. The pill only changes the display: the prompt still holds the plain words, and copying the prompt copies them.

Click a pill to open its menu:

Action	What it does
Swap	Replace the snippet with another snippet of the same category, such as Golden Hour with Neon Noir.
Left and right arrows	Step through the other snippets of the same category, one at a time, to compare results between runs.
Edit as text	Turn the pill back into text you can edit.
Remove	Delete the snippet and the separator that was added before it.

Backspace next to a pill deletes the whole pill at once.

A pill is shown wherever the prompt text matches a snippet exactly. If you later change the snippet in your library, older prompts that use the old words show them as plain text again. The prompt itself does not change.

Built-in snippets

Nodaro's built-in snippets cover image and video prompts and negative prompts. They are grouped in categories such as:

Category	Examples
Identity & Consistency	Identity Lock, Wardrobe Lock
Quality	Cinematic Quality, Editorial Photo
Lighting	Golden Hour, Neon Noir
Camera & Lens	85mm Portrait, Kodak Portra Look
Composition	Rule of Thirds, Full Body in Frame
Realism	Real Skin Texture, Film Grain
Text Rendering	Legible Sign Text, Clean Typography
Camera Motion (video)	Slow Dolly-In, Orbit Shot
Motion Quality (video)	Natural Physics, I2V Fidelity Lock
Audio & Dialogue (video)	No Subtitles, Silence Lock
Negative, image	Anatomy Cleanup, Watermark Scrub
Negative, video	Artifact Scrub, Identity Drift Scrub

Built-in snippets cannot be edited. Audio and text fields show only your own snippets.

Create your own snippets

Open the snippet manager

Click the </> button beside a prompt field, then New snippet. To start from text you already wrote, select it in the field first.

Fill in the snippet

Give it a name and the text, and choose where it applies.

Field	Rules
Name	Required. Up to 80 characters, and different from your other snippets' names.
Description	Optional. Up to 300 characters. The `/` menu searches it, so a good description helps you find the snippet.
Text	Required. Up to 2,000 characters. This is the exact text that is inserted.
Target	Prompt or negative prompt.
Media	Image, video, audio or text nodes. Leave it empty to show the snippet on every node.
Category	Optional. Groups the snippet in the menu. Without one, it appears under My snippets.

Save it

Your snippets always appear at the top of the menu, ahead of the built-in ones.

What a snippet cannot contain. Snippet text cannot contain {, }, @ or line breaks. The prompt editor uses curly braces for variables and @ for mentions, so these characters could turn your text into a variable or a mention.

Which snippets a field shows

Each snippet has a target, prompt or negative, and one or more kinds of node: image, video, audio or text. A field shows only the snippets that match both. A "Slow Dolly-In" video snippet never appears in an image prompt, and a negative snippet never appears in a normal prompt field.

Negative-prompt fields get the same / menu, with negative snippets, which are short comma lists such as morphing, warping, flickering. They insert plain text, without pills.

Audio-tag fields, the text fields of speech and Suno music nodes, keep / for their audio tags and do not show snippets.

See the final prompt

Every prompt and negative-prompt field has a Show final prompt button, an eye icon in its label row. It replaces the editor with the full prompt the model will receive, with a Copy button. Click the pencil to go back to Edit prompt. The view is remembered for each field and saved with the workflow.

On Generate Image and Modify Image, the final view colors each part by where it came from:

Color	Where the text came from
No tint	Your own text
Sky blue	A variable, such as `{Mood}`, filled from another node
Indigo	A connected picker
Amber	A snippet
Teal	The node's pre and post text
Violet	The reference phrases for connected characters and images
Grey	The style added at the end
Rose	The negative prompt, when the model has no separate negative field

Other nodes color the same parts where they can. The colors are only for display: Copy always copies plain text, and the model receives plain text.

Negative-prompt fields also say how your negative prompt is sent. Some models take a real negative prompt. For the others, Nodaro adds it to the end of the prompt as an "Avoid:" line.

Snippets from code

Snippets are managed in the editor. The REST API can read them: GET /v1/prompt-snippets lists your snippets and GET /v1/prompt-snippets/factory lists the built-in ones. Creating, editing and deleting snippets happens in the editor only. Running a workflow that uses snippets needs nothing special, because the words are already in the prompt.

Prompt snippets